The Face of Nature: An Environmental History of the Otago Peninsula (Jonathan West, Otago University Press)

Poetry

Anchor Stone (Tony Beyer, Cold Hub Press)

Night Horse (Elizabeth Smither, Auckland University Press)

Rāwāhi (Briar Wood, Anahera Press)

The Yield (Sue Wootton, Otago University Press)

The winners will be announced on 15 May on the opening night of the Auckland Writers Festival.

The winner of the fiction award receives NZ$50,000 (A$46,531) and the winners of the general nonfiction, illustrated nonfiction, poetry and Māori Language awards each receive NZ$10,000 (A$9306). No longlist has been released for the Māori Language award, which is awarded at the judges’ discretion. Books by debut authors are also eligible to win the Best First Book Award in each category, worth $NZ2500 (A$2326) each.